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Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

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Re: Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

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"delivering up to 750 output tokens per second and without any quality compromise" seems pretty definitive.

It’s suspicious that they repeat “without any quality compromise” instead of just outright saying it’s the exact same model. It’s like a motel that insists they have clean beds.

I assume it’s because there has been compromise with previous models on their hardware

Re: Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

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I've been waiting so long for something amazing to come out of the OpenAI and Cerebras collaboration. > In our evaluations, GPT-5.6 Sol on Ultrafast mode answered all 2,500 HLE questions in 11 hours and 11 minutes. Claude Fable 5 needed 78 hours and 27 minutes, more than three days of continuous compute, to arrive at the same conclusions. In other words, Ultrafast worked through the frontier of human knowledge in a s…

I discovered yesterday that the “amazing thing that comes out of OpenAI” is Sol, due to its token efficiency. Dollar for tokens, Sol and Fable are the same price. However, Sol uses (literally: in testing) around 10-100x less output tokens compared to Fable for the same task. We run our frontier models nearly 24/7, so switching to Sol will save us around $500 per day. And, due to less guardrails, Sol also performed be…

You could say the token usage is "load-bearing".

Re: Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

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I've been waiting so long for something amazing to come out of the OpenAI and Cerebras collaboration. > In our evaluations, GPT-5.6 Sol on Ultrafast mode answered all 2,500 HLE questions in 11 hours and 11 minutes. Claude Fable 5 needed 78 hours and 27 minutes, more than three days of continuous compute, to arrive at the same conclusions. In other words, Ultrafast worked through the frontier of human knowledge in a s…

I'm finding Luna suprisingly adequate for my work. I slept on it due to the benchmarks, but it's very fast and even on low reasoning I'm finding it more than adequate for "menial" work. (The speed is crucial for "interactive" work -- if a model is fast enough it goes from "async" to "real time", subjectively, which is a huge difference.) In fact, I'd say it's overqualified for the kind of work I'm doing, because it s…

Luna is incredible considering the cost. It’s very good for routine work.

Re: Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

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There are many industries and situations that will pay absurdly high multiples on API rates for low latency access. Anything remotely related to finance, deal flow, or trading, including the development and checking of Excel financial models. Live analytics that can be delivered mid-meeting to C-suite executives, or ultra-luxe dealmakers who need answers while on a live call. Intelligence and defense, where milliseco…

Please write your own posts

Please provide some, any, evidence or reasoning for your accusations.

Otherwise it’s just lazy. I know shallow dismissals is kind of HN’s thing, but come on, a little effort please. Currently, your comment is just as much slop

Re: Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

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post #143

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The comment you're replying to almost feels like it was written by a bot or am I crazy?

I agree. Weird to use and characters. Maybe written on phone, but certainly not on keyboard.

Other languages use different characters for quotes, if anything that's an indication that's not written by a LLM because it's not favoring the standard English character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark#Specific_langua...

Re: Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

#156
This is an amazing result. Can't wait until they release this to the general public, and I hope it's only a matter of time before other models are accelerated. I long for the day that regular consumers can run such models locally on specialized hardware.

Re: Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

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People underestimate the importance of speed on quality of thought, because people underestimate just how much quality is a result of simple iteration. When an LLM thinks, it typically just makes one pass. It outputs tokens from top to bottom, beginning to end, and then it's done. But when people think, especially strong thinkers, we typically iterate and revise our thoughts on the fly. We do numerous passes. We stop…

> But what if it didn't?

Or what if it output the final result in the first place, without having to repeatedly prompt it to check its own work to trick it into a better answer?

Re: Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

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I'm loving this competition (now that I can see how workflows keep us employed)

All the frontier labs go seemingly dormant for a month or two, while another one has its flurry of press releases, and people start to question whether the other lab is doing anything and then boom, the other lab finishes baking its next thing and releases its flurry of press releases

Re: Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast

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The comment you're replying to almost feels like it was written by a bot or am I crazy?

What kind of bot would say `less guardrails` instead of `fewer guardrails`? I guess someone could instruct an LLM to deliberately make mistakes, but isn't that too paranoid?

“include common grammatical imperfections and awkwardness common in casual message board interactions.” I’m not saying that’s what’s happening here, but a high school student told me that’s basically what they do to make papers not sound like AI.
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